The Battle for Britain's Heroes

Writer and journalist Afua Hirsch was recently involved in a heated exchange with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain over her thoughts on Churchill’s ideas about race.

She’s bound to stir up more comment and controversy with this polemic, The Battle for Britain’s Heroes, in which she confronts Britain’s view of its past and heroic figures from history. Should they really be celebrated by statues?

You have to admire her guts in having a go at Horatio Nelson for being pro-slavery, though she gets a rough ride from his supporters, and for tracking down and confronting one of her Twitter trolls. She also visits Germany, to see how it has dealt with its horrors.